skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No kidding, if it's a virus just let it spread, in a few years the world should be cancer free.

If you look a little further into that freezer you can also find 1930s designs for magic carburetors that get 90 mpg, and other machines that extract zero point energy, at the very bottom is a machine that transmutes lead into gold, unfortunately other alchemists during the 1400s used patents and other tricks to keep this magical machine from us for over 600 years.
Apart from the fact that a simulation isn't initiated all by itself, and points to a purpose important to something outside of the simulation.
Wow, that's a lot of good stuff. I'd recommend this to anyone starting with vim.
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The 4 points listed are suitable in general for hiring anyone in your team.

Read Elad Gil's post on the subject is right on spot http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/02/how-to-choose-co-founder.htm...
My comment was directed at the title chosen by OP. I have nothing against your post, the sharing of ideas and experiences is exactly the right reason for maintaining a blog . I concede that the "uninformed" bit was out of place as your post seem factually correct. We might disagree that “acquihiring” is fundamentally harmful to innovation even outside of the acquiring company, and some of the issues discussed about centralization can equally apply to many other actors in the industry not just Google. So again it was the chosen HN title that I had issue with.
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Like everything except vundle. (I use tpope's pathogen) Pre-packaged vim on github is a very nice way to distribute.
Woohoo! This seems to fix the issue with large contact photos (from your iPhone) being resized down to tiny 48x48 icons by Google Sync. As far as I know, there wasn't any way around that when syncing via Exchange.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/mobil...

http://superuser.com/questions/40437/editing-contact-in-gmai...

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail...
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It can't come back down for several reasons. Besides there being no way to bring it down, it's already been released, and is basically on the other side of the planet now.

Compare track of ISS vs OrbComm OG2:
http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25544
http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=38847

Anyway, it's a prototype satellite; OrbComm is making dozens more, and took the opportunity of a discounted secondary launch to test their new hardware. Probably having the thing in any orbit is good enough for their primary objective. I'm sure they would have liked to be able to integrate it into their eventual constellation, which is probably impossible now, but they knew the risk of flying secondary (to the ISS!) and likely found it acceptable even if they didn't get the right orbit.
In term sof new stuff that's true, but there are a lot of things that modern plugins provide that obsolete the traditional way of doing things. For instance, people using EasyMotion never have to worry about counting how many words ahead they're moving and then typing c69w or whatever. And likewise, there are some things that everybody should have in their .vimrc, like incremental search, and it doesn't make sense to learn to use the old way first.
The world record for average solve time (over five solves) is 7.56 seconds. I think 5.66s is abnormally fast I think.

Here's a video of the 5.66s solve:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_Km6cv6DU
Installed it, but now I'm getting this error when starting vim:

> E117: Unknown function: fugitive#statusline

> E15: Invalid expression: fugitive#statusline()
You're right taking the monitor off the desk every day is not fun, my desktop case does fit in the storage area underneath the desk so I do not have to move that everyday.

I have been working on a monitor mount that will work in conjunction with the UrbanDesk but it is not yet finished and I have been anxious to launch. Check back soon, as I hope to post a video of the finished mount within the next week or two.
The answer is: it depends. This is an android emulator - the same that Google ships with the Android SDK. A real device will probably be more responsive.

You will also have the difference of a touch based interface on a device and the emulated touch interface when using mouse-based devices (Manymo in your laptop/desktop browser.) That said, You can also use Manymo on your iPad...

In any case, having a device with the all screen size and OS version combinations does not really scale. Trying to do that gets rather expensive.
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The buzzword is mainstreaming, which angers hipsters, so they blog. The earth continues to spin and quake...
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>Occam's razor would say that the simplest explanation is the best

_Best_ not as in "the true one", but as in "the most possible, if we don't know any better".

An event could have an elaborate explanation and a simple one, and the elaborate explanation could still be the true one.

E.g a guy is found knifed in a desolate street of New York. His wallet is missing. He had no known enemies. The simplest explanation is "it was a mugging gone wrong". In fact, he was killed by a guy that had an obsession on the girl he recently started dating. The killer didn't even take the wallet to make it look like a mugging: he took it because it had pictures of the girl and the dead guy he wanted to add to his "shrine". (Hmm, I should go write for CSI).

>thus since this "simulation" works exactly the same as the known universe and we don't know about anything that is outside the universe we can safely ignore this theory and not lose any information about how the universe works.

Except if a simulation _doesn_t work_ "exactly the same as the known universe" but has tiny details that could be telling, which is, like, the premise of the whole article.
Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings.

On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more.

Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.
Appreciate your feedback. I'm getting mixed opinions on pricing - some are telling me its good, others are saying to lower it. I'm going to A/B test the pricing. What do you think is an acceptable range? $20-$30?
It is pretty easy to lift, I am not a strong guy (bench press < 100lb) and I don't have any trouble putting it up or down. The lifting action is assisted by gas springs which you can kind of see in the video but I didn't really mention them.

There is plenty of room for running cables off the back of the desk, I currently have a half dozen cords for charging phone, laptop, etc... and I haven't had any problems.
>First, some background. The problem with all simulations is that the laws of physics, which appear continuous, have to be superimposed onto a discrete three dimensional lattice which advances in steps of time.

That's only if we assume a digital simulation.

An "advanced civilization" could also run it in some kind of analog computing environment, no?
> The fact that distances are zero is just another way of saying that time has slowed down in your frame of reference. Is just two faces of the same coin.

Indeed. You can see this sort of effect in, say, the muon decay demo in my relativity simulator:

http://www.refsmmat.com/jsphys/relativity/relativity.html

The muon decay lifetime observations can be explained equally well in terms of time dilation or length contraction.
I'd like to see a medium pricepoint of, say, $50 or $75 that would include schematics for the bed (so you can build one for yourself if you desire).
I've giv'n her all she's got, an' I canna give her no more.
> It just strikes me as tautological.

Pretty much, yeah. There's as much value in it as in any kind of metaphysics, I guess; it makes it easier to get on with being an ape despite the creeping feeling that being an ape doesn't mean anything.

Basically-- I know that my experience of the universe is an interaction of the universe with itself, and that things I perceive also ~perceive me. I create the universe as it creates me, and the idea of "something" "real" "existing" outside of my experience of it doesn't make sense because none of those words make sense outside of my experience.

So my experience is a simulation, but what it is being simulated by is, in fact, my experience. Thus: A simulation of itself. It makes about as much sense as anything else.

In terms of pragmatic value? Eh. My view of philosophy is that the simplest reason to do something besides philosophy is most likely the best.

(I swear I don't sound like a crazy person in real life-- but despite my valediction, I love talking about this sort of thing.)
Cool idea. Any idea on what the topics will be?
Guess it wasn't implied enough: not getting your stuff back.

Sure, you pay to get it back, but they even mention "probably does not cover our costs" for some.
Your answer does not explain why. It correctly predicts the universe but it is not a why. Why do all particles slow down as speed increases? I'm looking for a more fundamental answer here.
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YOU CAN'T TAKE A JOKE.
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Perhaps this project shows that file vs image is, in fact, a false dichotomy. Instead of replacing our current file-based workflows with a monolithic image, this kind of tool could provide all the image functionality on top of the file structure. This model is no more difficult for large teams than the file-based one, since in that respect the database/query engine/tools they describe have the same essential ingredients for this as Git has, and one could envision a similar toolchain (push/pull/Github etc. for the database instead of the Git repo) emerging for a system like this. Best of both worlds? In many ways, it feels like the next step for the ideas that make Git great: why not add language semantics and query capabilities and take things to the next level?
Javascript!

CascadiaJS had an open call for proposals - you can read about most of them here:

https://github.com/cascadiajs/cascadiajs.github.com/tree/mas...
I would assume in these cases it is not the same starting position. A competition like that could be done, but the reality is that it doesn't matter. The way this robot and the fastest human speedcubers solve the cube is most likely very similar and either based on the ZB[1] or original Fridrich method (sometimes refereed to as F2L)[2] method of solving which requires the use of 100s of different algorithms. Because of this, solutions will usually take a similar amount of time and require a similar number of moves to solve the cube.

[1] http://www.zborowski.republika.pl/expert3x3x3method.html
[2] http://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Fridrich
I use Emacs all day every day, and I wouldn't call Tramp easy or reliable.
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Is a "kickstarter for hardware" which offers preorders, etc. even feasible? If it is, why isn't Kickstarter using that model?
To those who don't see the point of this, I would place it in the context of a larger move towards code "babel" (for lack of a better term), i.e., a unified interface for common abstractions. Imagine that (as Steve Yegge suggests) the tooling available for statically-typed langauges will eventually come to dynamic languages as well (think CEDET). It reminds me of the fact that most web server platforms still focus on emitting text instead of manipulating a DOM. That will change.

What I don't understand is why I need cookies enabled in Firefox to view the post. This is obviously a Blogger issue, as I've seen those little gears many times before. I can't imagine the great Rich Hickey intends it.
With this scheme, it looks like gmail is the source, and you can sync from gmail to other devices. Is that true?

Could you go the other way, and have a standalone app be the contact source, then sync from the app into gmail??
First: He didn't say that.

But it's a typical european intellectual view, especially in Germany and probably it's the same in France. Here we have the state support for the higher arts, like subventions for museums, to have them let a positive effect on the population. That is to counteract the evil influence of the pop-culture, especially of american movies and music. And all pc-games are garbage, responsible for kids killing people and the brutalization of the youth.

That view is deeply routed here and equally present in right-conservative circles as in left anti-imperialistic circles, who even in the 80s and 90s commonly didn't had a tv (or at least claimed to not watch it, if they had one, apart from watching the news and arte).

I hope that the following generations will change that, but just talk to a non-gamer about his view of pc-games. It will take years for a normal development here, though movies are much more accepted now (still censored, of course, and only the removal of the censorship will show me that this society here has accepted them fully)

Of course there are already intellectuals not fitting into that scheme, an example is Wolfram Knorr who wrote the book "Weil sie wissen, was sie tun" ("Because they know what they do") about the quality of the american influence on the german culture, showing the beginning of intellectual german anti-americanism in the 20s and more so in the 50s and the following development.

Anyway, that thought of a good german/european high-culture being in a fight with the american low-culture leads to a lot of state-intervention here, a process in which not only museums and theatres are given money so they can focus on not popular higher arts, but also books are bound to have the same high price so they aren't devalued as mere products.

Something like that bundle couldn't exist here, which is a shame (and which maybe explains the high average price).
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This could be useful for mobile web developers who don't want to install the full Android tools, but both this and the recent VirtualBox based Android system are (for native app developers who have a CPU with VT-x, EM64T, and XD -- basically all modern Intel chips) inferior to just using the Intel-x86 based emulator that has shipped since Android SDK API 10.

Both of these projects would have been extremely awesome to have a couple years ago, though.
There can absolutely be improvement on some default Vim settings. 'hlsearch' should definetly be the default, and I think it is a crime that 'hidden' isn't. There are easily dozens of other examples.

However I think these should be made defaults in Vim itself, not in some grabbag of stuff we hand new users on their way in. I think it is important that every Vim user knows exactly what ways their setup differs from the default, and this is only feasible if every difference from the default (the real default) is made by the user.
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I'm curious as to why you (or anyone) would prefer pathogen to vundle? Vundle just seems like pathogen except with less manual work.
I'm still confused. Are you saying our society has elevated the theory that we're a simulation to the status of dogma? That doesn't match with what I observe. Are you saying it's untestable? That's what the article is about. Are you saying that we have no a priori reason to believe it might be true? If you look at the universe as it appears to be, then it's a justifiable surmise that the majority of humans intelligences that will exist will be in simulations that we will run. That's why people are interested in figuring out if we're the people in the simulations in the first place. I really still don't see why you think the situations are comparable.
This was the first thing I checked for. Finally!
Good question. Topics will run the gamut of applications of JS (browser, Node.js, Windows 8, etc). We used GitHub to post a public call-for-speakers. Prospective speakers were asked to fork the repo, add their proposal and submit a pull request. All credit to Troy Howard (@thoward37) for setting that up. You can check-out the submissions here:

https://github.com/cascadiajs/cascadiajs.github.com/tree/mas...
Of course I didn't say that.

I said that compensation is affected by other forces than supply and demand (market value), so that the minimum compensation is higher than it would be at market value in that country, not that it is higher than in the US.

Related to that, the southern European countries don't have individual control over the currency, so prices are higher than they would be if they were in control of the Euro. Salaries have been raised by law (civil service, collective bargaining, state pensions) in order to match prices. As a consequence, those salaries do not correspond to productivity, so employees are expensive, which pushes unemployment up.

If you employ people in Italy a main problem will be that your employees have to pay European prices for food and clothing. In order to prevent what many consider abuse, there are laws protecting the minimum compensation you have to offer to them. The workaround for that is not share options, but the black market.
Ok, sorry about violating house style. Old habits die hard.
Ok, I've no actual need for this service - but I'm upvoting because it's cool!
Yeah, true - producers can pervert a film any way they like.
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> Yes, fair enough. In such a case, why not use an explicit index like letters of the alphabet, in other words why not reindex the table just once, hierarchically, with something relevant to table searches, in a way that breaks the table up into manageable chunks?

In an ideal world where we still only want to physically organize but one copy of data, the criteria for what partitioning would be ideal is dependent on query workload: for example, aggregates over a month (avg, stddev, max, min). In that case, choosing a partitioning metric makes a lot of sense, and reorganizations are seldom.

Sometimes people just want to have roughly-equal physical partitioning of the data, but want it more-or-less clustered by some metric (the ideal is typically a sort, but maintaining a strict sorted order may be too punishingly expensive on modification), with each partition being aware of some aggregation of its metric (such as spanning range). In this case, partitions will require re-balancing, and that's roughly the class of solution the post here falls into.

See also: index organized tables (not supported in Postgres), and their many, many problems when dealing with data modifications. However, they do perform well for some workloads.

> Yes, but if the solution doesn't address the underlying problem, just the symptom, it will need to be reapplied perpetually.

Yes. However, this solution composes on tools already available, and are already caveat-loaded enough as-is (if you look at the pg_reorg page, they are quite upfront about those). There will always be a frontier of workarounds to problems that have not been polished, because polishing is probably about one hundred fold as expensive (sometimes more), and achieving the incremental, nice versions without database management system support is not very lucid and quite complicated, and not therefore not an economic choice for many situations.
I recommend reading this reddit comment for a great explanation of why "faster than light" doesn't make any sense:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/fjwkh/why_exactl...

Essentially, it makes no sense because "faster than light" translates to "faster than as fast as you can possibly travel".
LT already has a basic form of this, it just interacted with the filesystem directly instead of going through git. I'll play with this some to see what I can make out of it :)
A detailed (and skeptical) look at what this actually is, from a scientist and surgical oncologist:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/another-cancer...

Bullets:

* There has been media coverage of Ad5[CgA-E1A-miR122]PTD (the virus) and it has been terrible, on the order of homeopathy and nanotechnology; there is good science behind the virus, but it's been tainted by association with its promoters.

* Any evidence for the effectiveness of the virus is preclinical and mouse-modeled. Which, even if you have only a superficial understanding of pharma science, you'd learn from a few years of HN coverage of new drugs that mouse models are a very weak signal.

* Making a "cancer-busting" virus isn't hard, or at least, has been a process understood for some cancers since the '90s. What's hard is a viral therapy that won't kill the patient, such as by dissolving the patient's liver (a particular concern with neuroendocrine tumors since they metastasize to the liver first, and because things that target those tumors also tend to target liver cells). There are clever ideas in Ad5[CgA-E1A-miR122]PTD to that effect, but they are totally unproven.

* As usual, the argument that Big Pharma can't monetize something like this and therefore it's not being tested is BS. There's an open field of work that can be undertaken to refine and productize something like this --- again, it's at mouse models today --- and all that work is patentable.

* The more likely reason this research hasn't gone anywhere is that gene therapy is out of fashion in oncology.
Several months old, but still worth a read - especially for the end of Mystical's comment, where he discusses the different optimizations performed by different compilers. Particularly interesting is the Intel Compiler, which effectively optimizes out the benchmark itself: something to keep in mind when testing your own code, if you want your results to make sense.
Ah this.. the highest voted Q on SO. Not again plz - http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Why+is+proc...
(interesting case of same page diff urls bypassing HN duplicate url check though)

Go to http://stackoverflow.com/questions sort by votes and read from top if you like.
If your monitor has a VESA mount, you could mount it to the bottom of the bed, perhaps?
It looks like for a long time we've suspected this strange relationship between our own mathematical inventions (a computer simulation is just a machine that applies a discrete mathematical model), and the universe itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...

It certainly is a mystery. I persnally believe this mystery is logically equivalent to the question "what is existence?" Whether this question is answerable or not, I can't say.
Yes $650 is a large amount to be donating to a project like mine, and I agree that it is not the way to go for everyone or every project. I thought that I would try it out for this project to see what the response would be like, and it seemed like the best way to build both financial support and interest for the project so I went for it.

I know producing these will be a big job and I liked that Kickstarter allows me to set my funding goal at a level where I will be most likely to succeed. I could have certainly set up a pre-order page with a Stripe button and started building as the orders came in, but being woefully underfunded is not a great way to start an enterprise like this in my opinion. And I thought that Kickstarter would be the lowest risk option for everyone involved.
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"unless you've raised money, are bringing in substantial revenue, or have a sizable active user base"

Those are not startups, those are businesses.
Startups are pre-revenue and pre-launch - i.e. just starting!